University Library Services during COVID-19 period

Startup Checklist

In an effort to keep our communities safe and following university

coronavirus (COVID-19) protocols, All UPES Libraries have closed access
to physical facilities until further notice, and moved to a virtual services
model. Our extensive collection of digital materials remains available and
we are continually adding e-books to satisfy the students requirement,
and the majority of library services are accessible remotely.

We are here to support you .

Summary of the initiatives

 Efforts to boost access to eBooks, for example by increasing the number of eBooks that
students, researchers and faculty members can download or read online at any given
time, informing users about the freely available content.
 Re-prioritization of resources from physical to digital materials.
 Facilitated access by making it easier to log-in and access materials from outside of
official networks.
 Communicated with publishers, vendors and others working with libraries to facilitate
access to content.
 Facility to check Plagiarism using URKUND software and necessary guidance for
checking plagiarism.
 Webinar on access to e-resources, facilities, referencing system, use of plagiarism
software etc.

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 The library is assisting faculty, research scholars and students with accessing, retrieval,
and referencing information relevant to their research or study

Subscribed e-Resources for off-campus access

 E-books (2.45 Lakhs+ titles) from Bloomsbury, McGraw Hill, PHI, Pearson, Elsevier,
Springer, ProQuest Academic, John Wiley, EBSCO, Bloomsbury etc.
 E-journals, e-proceedings and e-standards - 52000+
 Databases (58) like Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, IEEE xPlore DL, Emerald
Management, EBSCO Business Source ultimate etc.

Free Access to e-Resources during COVID-19 period

1. Harvard Business Publishing Offer Libraries Free Unlimited User (UU) Access to 600+
E-Books
2. In addition to the subscribed 8500 reference ebook titles published by Elsevier,
complimentary access to 256 text books for 90 days until June 20, 2020 using a
common UID and Password.
3. Trial access of McGraw Hill express ebook library which contains all the e-books
published by McGraw Hill covering all subject areas.
4. Trial access of 250+ bare acts and 350+ text books published by Eastern Book
Company. This is exclusively useful for School of Law Students.
5. Access to IEEE xPlore database and complimentary access to 65 e-learning courses
via temporary username and password.
6. Access to 12,400 Open Educational Resources in all subject areas to support remote
classroom needs. It is available at no charge to use through June 30, 2020.

7. Access to 2,60,000 Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations for research students
to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in
open access from https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in.

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8. Free access to over 700 text books from Cambridge University Press until May 31,
2020.
9. Free access to "COVID-19 resources" (articles from books and journals that are related
to Covid-19) from Oxford University Press.
10. Free access to a range of essential textbooks from all disciplines from SpringerNature.
11. All journals and few ebooks from volumes 2001 onwards, until June 30, 2020 from
World Scientific.
12. Zlibrary is one of the largest online libraries in the world that contains 49.6 Lakhs books
and 77 Lakhs+ Articles from renowned sources. Free registered user can download 5
books per day.

URL, Log-in ID and Password for accessing resources

Off-Campus Access to e-resources

Off-campus facility will help you to get the access to our subscribed resources from
anywhere at any time. All faculty members can login using their official email ID and
password. All students can login with the credentials provided by our IT Department for
accessing UPES Wi-fi/Internet facility. Temporary ID and Password for accessing the
e-resources.

URL: https://elibrary.ddn.upes.ac.in/login

UID: elearning

Password: Gmail@123

In addition, to the off-campus facility majority of the publishers have given a common
ID for accessing the resources during COVID-19 Lockdown period using the URL
mentioned below.

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Bloomsbury Publications

Get complete access to eBooks platform covering more than 9,000 eBooks on Law,
Humanities and Social Sciences. We have also created a remote username and
password to access all the below mentioned products from home.

Bloomsbury Collections eBooks

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/

Username: UPetEnS

Password: f39t1x8

Bloomsbury Design

https://www.bloomsburydesignlibrary.com/login?recentUrl=/home

Username: UPetEnS

Password: f39t1x8

Bloomsbury Fashion Central

https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/log-in

Username: UPetEnS

Password: f39t1x8

Harvard Business Publishing

Case Studies
Library is providing access to case studies to our faculty members. If any School of
Business faculty member like to request for case studies, please send your
recommendation at rsthakur@ddn.upes.ac.in in the prescribed form available at

https://library.ddn.upes.ac.in:8443/upeslib/forms/2018/eprod_Request_Form_casestu
dy_upes.docx.

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E-Books

Harvard Business Publishing provided free unlimited user access to the Harvard

Business Review E-Book Subscription Collection until May 30, 2020. This ground-

breaking collection contains the complete catalog of Harvard Business Review e-books.

With over 600 e-books that include 400+ monographs, newly published e-books,

seminal works, and 150+ article compilations of the HBR Classics series, faculty will be

available to quickly provide relevant digital materials for their students.

https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&custid=ns014078&groupid

=main&profile=ehost&defaultdb=e076tww&user=upes12&password=123@Doon

Elsevier (Ebooks, Scopus and ScienceDirect)

Access to 9000+ ebooks published by Elsevier, Scopus citation index and

ScienceDirect database, using the following temporary credentials. No need for
accessing through our off-campus facility.

UID: library@ddn.upes.ac.in

Password: library

Concurrently maximum four users can access the database. If you are facing any
problem, you may access through our off-campus facility.

In addition, Elsevier has provided Free access to 256 text books for 90 days, until June

20, 2020. Download ebook list and click on the link mentioned against each title.

URL: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/sciencedirect/content/book-title-lists

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IEEE xPlore Digital Library

IEEE xPlore DL plus 60+ free e-learning courses using the IEEE Xplore subscription
via temporary username and password. The temporary login is currently set to expire
on the 30th of April.

For accessing the IEEE resources

1. Visit the IEEE Xplore Digital Library at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org

2. Click the Institutional Sign In or Personal Sign In and use the following Login
and Password:

Username: 0zsWAg11

Password: HzW7Pij6

Please follow the fair use guidelines of the IEEE Xplore Digital Library to avoid being
blocked due to misuse.

EBSCO research databases, e-book platform

Get access to EBSCO Business Source Ultimate, Energy & Power Source,
Entrepreneurial Studies Source, eBook EngineeringCore (EBSCOhost), eBook
Business Collection (EBSCOhost), EBSCO Biotechnology Collection: India, EBSCO
Chemical Engineering Collection: India. You may access using the following temporary
URL:
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid&user=upes12&password=123
@Doon

To support distance learning at institutions impacted by COVID-19 closures, EBSCO

has provided 12400 Free Open e-books to support remote classroom needs. To get
the access to free e-books use the following link:

URL: https://go.ebsco.com/XTH00EN0s100Q200002kLP0

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Information on COVID-19 from EBSCO

EBSCO Health team have aggregated public and proprietary content from government
agencies and publishers to create a resource portal that spans collective knowledge on
corona virus. The site is being updated daily and all of the content is free to all.

URL: https://www.ebsco.com/covid-19-resources#sect2

HeinOnline – Remote access

HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 182 million pages and
281,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-
based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing
comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,800 law-related periodicals. In
addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire
Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete
coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties,
constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign
relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more. Please find below the details for Remote
Users Access for Hein Online, 20 members can simultaneously access Hein Online
using these details.

URL: https://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome
Username: upes
Password: p32g4ac

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SpringerNature

Free access to a range of essential textbooks from all disciplines. Download the list of
Free English textbook titles (all disciplines) and open the URL mentioned in the excel
file.

URL: https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-
articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-
coronaviru/17855960

Cambridge University Press

Free access to over 700 text books until May 31, 2020
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-
publish/books/listing?sort=canonical.date%3Adesc&aggs%5BonlyShowAvailable%5D
%5Bfilters%5D=true&aggs%5BproductTypes%5D%5Bfilters%5D=BOOK%2CELEME
NT&searchWithinIds=0C5182F27A492FDC81EDF8D3C53266B5

McGraw Hill Express Library

Access thousands of ebooks from the below mentioned URL

URL- expresslibrary.mheducation.com

Username – DU_eBook

Password – Mcgraw2020

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Eastern Book Company

Activated the trial access of 250+ bare acts and 350+ text books published by Eastern
Book Company (EBC). This will be beneficial for all Law students. During trial access
period only 10 readers will be able to access using unique UID mentioned below:

URL: https://www.ebcreader.com/library.php

UID: euser1@stu.upes.ac.in to euser10@stu.upes.ac.in

Password: Ebc@2020

Energie.de
Free access until the end of 2020
https://www.energie.de/service/abo-leserservice/zugangsinformationen/

JoVE Education Video:

Free access to many videos until June 15, 2020
https://www.jove.com/coronavirusresource

JSTOR
Journals and ebooks until June 30, 2020.
URL: https://www.jstor.org/

NOMOS
Complete contents (e-books, journals, text books etc.) at first until March 31, 2020.
URL: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/

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MUSE
University publishers as well as other participating publishers, journals and e-books,
e.g. Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton etc.

URL: https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/

Oxford University Press

Free access to "COVID-19 resources" (articles from books and journals that are related
to Covid-19)

URL: https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/coronavirus

World Scientific
All journals and few ebooks from volumes 2001 onwards, until June 30, 2020.
URL: https://www.worldscientific.com/page/wsjournals

ProQuest E-Book Central

Unlimited simultanous access to thousands of e-books until June 15, 2020

https://www.proquest.com/blog/pqblog/2020/Coronavirus-Impacted-Libraries-Get-
Unlimited-Access-to-Ebook-Central.html

ZLibrary

Zlibrary is one of the largest online libraries in the world that contains 49.6 Lakhs books
and 77 Lakhs+ Articles from renowned sources. Free registered user can download 5
book per day.

URL: https://z-lib.org/

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AEA - American Economic Association

Free access to journals until June 30, 2020
URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/news/member-announcements-april-3-2020

Initiative taken by UGC & MHRD during COVID-19

The UGC has released a list of initiatives using which the academic community can utilize their
time as the country is in a lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak. The initiatives include
SWAYAM, MOOCs etc.

 SWAYAM online courses: https://storage.googleapis.com/uniquecourses/online.html

 UG/PG MOOCs: http://ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs_courses.php
 e-PG Pathshala: http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
 e-Content courseware in UG subjects: http://cec.nic.in/
 SWAYAMPRABHA: https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/
 CEC-UGC YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/cecedusat
 National Digital Library: https://www.ndl.gov.in/ or https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

Physical Materials

 All current loans have been extended to 30 June 2020, this will be extended further if
required.
 Overdue fines for books and other library materials have been suspended and will not be
charged. Any fines due to late returns during the closure will be waived off..
 Maximum Renewal eligibility has been extended to 8 times for all students.
 Please hold onto the materials you have checked out.
 Book reservation has been suspended during the lockdown period.

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 You may receive or have already received emails about returning books or fines - these
can be ignored for now.

Plagiarism checking – URKUND software

1. All faculty members will get the UID for submitting the document for checking and
receiving analysis report in their ID.
2. Interested students will get the URKUND User ID as submitter as permitted by the
INFLIBNET and MHRD. Please send mail to rsthakur@ddn.upes.ac.in for creating the
User ID.
3. The student will get the analysis report at rsthakur.upes@analysis.urkund.com. The
analysis will be sent to students immediately

Library Support for Students, Researchers and Faculty

members

 The library is maintaining “We Care Service” for general help, links, UID and Password
for the resources, off-campus access and other issues. All library users may contact at

ppsati@ddn.upes.ac.in; kklal@ddn.upes.ac.in; pkapoor@ddn.upes.ac.in;

a.ghosh@ddn.upes.ac.in; rsthakur@ddn.upes.ac.in .

 For URKUND software solution to plagiarism related queries, mail to

a.ghosh@ddn.upes.ac.in; rsthakur@ddn.upes.ac.in.

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